The aim is to build a 4 TB file server with some sort of redundancy on a shoestring, hopefully with automatic failover.
My background: I am a part-time hacker who has read a few Wikipedia articles and now believes that being a sysadmin can't be that hard. Yes, I have thoroughly read all Proxmox marketing materials. I've had a number of bad experiences with server-class hardware from HP Enterprise, but thanks to Windows 11, I have many reasonable PCs to play with.
I gather that I can set up...
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My background: I am a part-time hacker who has read a few Wikipedia articles and now believes that being a sysadmin can't be that hard. Yes, I have thoroughly read all Proxmox marketing materials. I've had a number of bad experiences with server-class hardware from HP Enterprise, but thanks to Windows 11, I have many reasonable PCs to play with.
I gather that I can set up...
Read more